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Thursday, October 31, 2013

I make two cards each year; one for my brother’s
kids and one for my sister Jennie. They all love to receive my cards, so I try to make
one for every opportunity that presents itself. There is nothing better in this
world, than making something by hand that is truly appreciated.

This past summer my twin niece and nephew
mailed me cute letters from summer camp. Actually I received two from my sweet
nephew, and the second one asked me if I still made cards. So Auntie Sandra
took that as a hint and mailed him back using one of my stash cards. When I saw him recently, which isn't often, he
told me that the other kids thought it was super KEWL!

I’ll tell yeah, it sure makes the heart feel
good when a 10 year old tells you he loves your cards.

Anyway, I am showing only one card today because my sister received the Headless Horseman card I made last year (hit the archives in case you forget the ones I made), so I
only needed to make one this year.

The one
I didn’t use last year was Frankenstein, so this year I made sure he was. I designed my own little scene for
him and I hope you like it…..

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I printed the image onto Neenah card stock, and
then coloured it with my Copics naturally.

Now, the Make It Crafty Eerie Scene comes
with a full moon as you see here, but you have to create all the details of the
moon’s surface. So, I decided to search the internet for a real photo
of the moon instead.

I simply printed it out on regular copy paper and then cut it out
using a spellbinder circle die cut.

I cut the bats out from the eerie scene and I coloured them and used some glossy accents on top.

Here's a closer look at Frankie...

While I was searching for the moon I came across this cool clip art grave stone. Don’t you just love the inscription?

The grass was made using my Memory Box die cut, and I coloured it to look like
dried up grass.

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Hello
Crafty Peeps!!! Indeed, it
has been a while since I last posted.

Unfortunately, I am still having health
issues that prevent me from colouring on a regular basis, and on top of that two
computers in our house decided to bite the dust.

At first it was our old desk top, which really didn’t
bother me because I rarely used it. But, when my laptop decided to tag along with it a week later, well
needless to say I was a wee bit peeved!

We have
since replaced both computers with one really good one, and I have since
inherited my husband’s not so old laptop. He needed wanted an exceptionally good one because he has his own travel blog, and is in the process of learning how to use the professional Photoshop editing program. So naturally he wanted one with all the bells and whistles!

Now moving on to what's really important...my card.

Recently I designed a birthday card for my
Father on the occasion of his 81st birthday. I am so blessed to have
both my parents.

We also
recently celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada, and a few of my family members
managed to get together and combined both occasions.

I coloured
the image with my Copics Markers of course, but there is to many colours to list, sorry. Designer
papers are from MME and the embellies are simply gems and buttons. How do you like my
little hay bundle that I created using raffia, LOL?

I chose
“Vegetable Patch” because I envisioned this little fella likely resembled my Father when he was a young boy helping his grandparents on their vegetable farm. Funny enough an opportunity presented itself during our weekend together that pretty much fast forwards this image by several decades.

Here is my Father at 81, doing exactly what he loves to do, carrots and all...gotta love him!

God Bless
him!

For some fun, I will be
entering my card into the following challenges:

Guest Designer

I'm a winner

About Me

In 2000 I was stricken with a life altering illness that ended my professional career in law enforcement. You think your life is going according to plan, and then one day you wake up and it all changes. I have many physical disabilities that rob me of my independence. After overcoming many hurdles there came the day when I desperately needed to find something meaningful to do with my time. It had to be constructive, challenging, and had to keep my brain active. I tried so many different things that just didn’t light that spark, so I kept trying new things and so on. One day I found myself dabbling in the paper crafting world where I developed a passion for Copic Marker colouring, and guess what, I found that spark. Now I have a new passion, a new direction wherein that I want to learn more and more.
If somebody had of told me that I would eventually create a blog and display my artistic abilities within it I would have told them they were off their rocker! However, I didn't get here alone; together with the love of a wonderful man, a truly amazing family, my masterful friend Sean, and along with some awesome and wacky women friends, I was able to get it together.